Not something I expected to read. A new attitude?
Also the article you linked says between 4500 and 2000 years ago. So the '3500 years' was a pretty decent guess if you ask me.
"Clash over telescope at sacred Hawaiian site"
"It is the burial grounds of some of our most sacred and revered ancestors"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clash-over-telescope-at-sacred-...
Strange how hawaiians care about these ancient burial grounds and we don't? Perhaps because the US has no connection to these ancestors while the hawaiians do?
*was, *was
>When it is under a african pyramid it is an archaeological site to be dug up and collected.
*was, *was
>That is not a new attitude, rather a very old one.
They are explicitly saying it now because that attitude has been changing.
However, most churches don't have full bodies anymore, for obvious reasons. However, when the altar is stripped (for example on Good Friday). If you were invited into the sanctuary... you would be able to see a stone, on which there is inscribed several crosses. Under each cross is a relic, set into the stone. The priest consecrates bread / wine over the stone.
In terms of provenance... you can't sell a relic, but most monasteries, shrines, the Vatican, or other places that have burial records, will provide relics upon request, if available. Orders keep careful details of their martyrs and saints. So for example, a Dominican parish will often ask a Dominican priory with burials of a Dominican saint for a relic. We have indeed even entered the modern age where some monasteries / priories / convents even let priests request relics online!